Re: Trying to Insert Alt Tags Programmatically

in reply to Trying to Insert Alt Tags Programmatically

Here's what I have:

Nice fragment :) here is a complete program

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

Main(@ARGV);
exit(0);

sub Main {
    my $html = '<html><body>
<img src="0" alt="0">
<img src="1" alt="1">
<img src="2" alt="2">
<img src="3" alt="">
<img src="4">
<img src="5">
</body></html>';

    my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
    $tree->parse($html);

    local $\ = $/;
    print $_->as_HTML
      for $tree->look_down( qw' _tag img ',
        sub { not defined $_[0]->attr('alt') } );

    print '---';

    print $_->as_HTML
      for $tree->look_down( qw' _tag img ',
        sub { not length $_[0]->attr('alt') } );

    print '---';

    $_->attr( alt => MAlt($_) )
      for $tree->look_down( qw' _tag img ',
        sub { not length $_[0]->attr('alt') } );
    print $_->as_HTML for $tree->look_down(qw' _tag img ');
} ## end sub Main

sub MAlt { '!' . $_[0]->attr('src') }

__END__
<img src="4" />
<img src="5" />
---
<img alt="" src="3" />
<img src="4" />
<img src="5" />
---
<img alt="0" src="0" />
<img alt="1" src="1" />
<img alt="2" src="2" />
<img alt="!3" src="3" />
<img alt="!4" src="4" />
<img alt="!5" src="5" />
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Alternatively, try HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

Main(@ARGV);
exit(0);

sub Main {
    my $html = '<html><body>
<img src="0" alt="0">
<img src="1" alt="1">
<img src="2" alt="2">
<img src="3" alt="">
<img src="4">
<img src="5">
</body></html>';

    my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new();
    $tree->parse($html);

    local $\ = $/;
    print $_->as_HTML for $tree->findnodes('//img[not(@alt)]');

    print '---';

    print $_->as_HTML for $tree->findnodes('//img[not(string-length(@a
+lt))]');

    print '---';

    $_->attr( alt => MAlt($_) )
      for $tree->findnodes('//img[not(string-length(@alt))]');
    print $_->as_HTML for $tree->findnodes('//img');
} ## end sub Main

sub MAlt { '!' . $_[0]->attr('src') }

__END__
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